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VOLUME XXIV DRAWS LARGE ENROLUKNT Opening Address Tuesday Evening By Dr. Rond- thaler. Attendance Breaks All Previous Years. Strong Leaders on Week’s Program $25.00 FOR A TITLE TO THIS PICTURE PARTICULARS ON PAGE SEVEN—TODAY’S PAPER \ The Presbyterian Young People’s Conference held annually under the auspices of the Synod of South Caro lina, opened Tuesday evening in the Presbyterian College auditorium. The attendance has passed the 240 mark, largest of any previous year, and indications point to a successful week with a program consisting of a series of able addresses by prominent Pres byterian ministers and laymen. Dr. "H. E. Rondthaler, president of Salem College, of Winston-Salem, N. C., made the opening address, his topic being, “The Young Christian and His Lord.” The main theme Of Dr. Rondthaler’s message was that young people ought td use Jesus Christ. He presented this unique message in a very forceful way.. H* said that young people ought to use Jesus in their life, that great Joy ai rways came to Him when men and women make use of Him. The lepers used him, the lame and the blind, the. sick, all kinds pf men and yomen used Him in the days of His flash. He spoke of the “likableness’* of Jesus, saying that his disciples liked Him, loved and used Him. Then Dr. Rondthaler suggested that »young people ought to use Jesus in His Death. To do this one has to live constantly in the consciousness of His' cross. And lastly, the young people ought to use Jesus in His Res- unrection. Eternal life is not to be, he said, but is now, already the Christian has begun eternal life. The large gathering of young people was deeply moved by tikis splendid inspi rational address. Yesterday momiife the daily, sche dule began and will continue through out ahe week, as follows: 6:30 a. m.—Rising bell. « 7:00 a. m.—Setting-up exercises. 7:20-7:86 s. m.—Morning prayers 8:00 a. m.—Breakfast. 8:48 s. m.—Song service. 9:00-9:45 a. m.—Bible hour—Dr. Turnbull. 9:45-10:30 s. m.—Graded course on Presbyterianism. First year, "Pres byterian Fundamentals/’ Mr. Laps- ley. Second year, “The Story of the Presbyterian Church,” Mr. Seawright. - 10:30-11:15 *. nu—Graded course on Missions. First year, “Home Mis sions.” Miss Nancy White. Second REVIVAL SER GROW IN IN Strong Sermons Being Preached At First Baptist Church By Dr. L. : R- Prnette af Chsrbtte,; i_l The: revival services at the First Baptist church began Monday evening and have grown in interest and effect iveness during {he week. jJTwo servi- REV. L. R. PRKETTE, D. D. ces are being held daily, at 10 a. m. and at 8 p. m. Dr. L. R. Pruette, pas tor of the Ninth Avenue Baptist church of Charlotte, is doing the preaching and la presenting a series ^{Dn Douglas Gone On Northern Trip year, “Foreign Missions,” Mr. Darby Fulton. 11:15-11:30 a. m.—Organized re creation. 11:30 a. m.-12:15 p. m.— Gr^sd course on Young People’s Work. First year, “Christian Endeavor,’* Mr. Wil son. Second year, “Sunday School,” Miss Claudia Fraser. 12:15-1:00 p. m.—Open conference. . 1:00-1:30 p. m.—Tribal meeting. 1:30 p. m.—Dinner. 2:00-3:00 p. m.—Rest period. 4:00-6:00 p. m.—Recreation. 1 6:80 p. m.—Supper. 7:45 p. m.—Social period. 7:45-8:15 p. m.—Vespers—Mr. Be- dinger. * 8:15 p. m.—Inspirational address— Theme for series, “The Young Christ ian.*' Address last night, “The Young Christian and His Bible,” by Rev. Flourney Shepperson, of Chester. Thig^ evening, Governor Thomas G. McLeod will address the conference on the subject, “The Young Christ ian and His Church.” Friday evening, “The Young Christ ian and His Money,” will be presented by Rev. J. A. McLean of Greenwood. Sunday evening, Rev. John Mc- Sween will speak on “The Young Christian and Prayer,” and on Mon day evening the same speaker will discuss, “The Young Christian and His Life.” Sunday morning in the Thornwell Memorial church, the conference ser mon will be preached by Rev. C. Darby Fulton, of Okasalti, Japan. This year’s faculty is pronounced as the strongest in the conference's history, its personnel being as fol lows: r - Conference Manager—Dr. R. F. Kivkpatrick, of Anderson. Dr. Kirk patrick has done a wonderful work among the young people of his own ehurfik. He is knbwn throughout the South as a loader in young people's Bible # Teacher—Dr. M. Ryerson Turnbull, of the Asaembly’s Training (Continued on Pago Eight) ^ tetfte has had long and exten sive experience in pastoral and evan gelistic work and ranks ms a man of marked ability in his denomination. The services will continue until fur ther notice is given Rev. Edward Long, tike pastor, stated yesterday. The pastor and congregation assure the public of s cordial welcome at any of these services. ment followed he finding today Joliet, 111., one of four automobiles used by the bandits and more than 50 of the 61 registered mail pouches obtained by the robbery in the most daring hold-up in railroad history. Mr. Germer also announced that some of th^, train robbers are includ ed among the six men and two wo men now held by the Chicago police. At the same time Morgan A. Collins, chief of police, announced that the names nf all, the robbers are known . Dr. and Mrs. D. M. Douglas and daughters, Misses Elizabeth and Mar garet, left yesterday in their car for an extended Northern trip. Their first stop will be in Baltimore where his family will visit while he attends the Democratic convention next week in New York. From Baltimore they will g6 to Pittsburgh to visit Mrs. Douglas* sister and on to Grand Rap ids to visit her uncle. On their re turn Dr. Douglas will preach two Sundays at the Church of the Pil grim in Washington, returning to the city the early part of August. College Matron Changes Position Mrs. M. E. Middleton, of this city, sister of Mr. W. H. Shands, has been elected by the University of South Carolina for the coming year aa ma tron of the woman’s building. For the past twelve years Mrs. Middle- ton has been dining room matron at Clemson College where she made an excellent record and was esteemed alike by faculty and student body. Before going to Clemson, she was connected with the Thornwell Orphan age of this city, as matron of the Augustine Home. LAN FORD CITIZEN RUNS FOR HOUSE James L. Fleming of Lanford Sta tion, formally announces his candi dacy for the house of representatives in the columns of The Chronicle to day. For several years Mr. Fleming has been teaching at Wrightaville, Ga., and decided this summer to en ter the race. He is a new man in the field of Laurens county politics and his race will be watched with interest by his friends. Misses .Clara and Helen Crosby and Messrs. Claude and Earl Crosby, of Batesburg spent Monday here as (he gumts of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kern. * REPLY BY DIAL TO OPPONENTS Incumbent Senator Resents Attacks of Byrnes and McMahan. Strikes Back. EXPECT TO ARREST TWO MAIL BANDITS Men Said By Officers To Have Over Three Million Dollars Of Loot In Possession. Chicago, June 17.—The $3,000,000 loot obtained by train robbers who last Thursday night held up a Chi cago, Milwaukee & St. , Louis mail train at Roundout, 111., is in the pos session of two men whose names are known and who will be arrested with in 24 hours, A. E. Germer, chief pos tal inspector in charge of the investi- gstiiii mwMMnmd tnnight His || •ta*- ne.T N. C. OFFICER IS KILLED BY NEGRO to the police; that there were not more than ten bandits implicated and that those not now in custody will be arrested soon. He said latest esti mates placed the haul at approxi mately $3,000,000 in securities nego tiable and non-negotiable and $70,000 in cash. Michael Hughes, chief of detectives, said the robbers obtained 61 mail pouches and that 55 have been recov ered, including those found near Joliet and one found the day after the robbery. The six missing sacks, he said, were probably used by the rob bers to carry away the negotiable loot. Chief Hughes said all the prisoners held by the police will probably be turned over to the federal authorities tonight or tomorrow when hearings on writs of habeas corpus for the re lease of three of them are scheduled in federal court. The latest suspect to be taken in custody is Carl Fontana, leader of a notorious Chicago gang, and who was held for s time in connection with a mail robbery at Harvey, HI., and as a suspect in other crimes. Mr. Germer said that mail clerks who saw the John Davis, Colored, Of Inman, S. C., Is HeM For Alleged Murder. Grensboro, N. C., June 16.—John Davis, South Carolina negro, will be given a preliminary hearing in muni cipal court here Wednesday morning under a charge of first degree mur der as a result of the slaying of Patrolman Elmer E. Honeycutt, of the local police department, Sunday morning, shortly before 10 o’clock. The patrolmen was almost instant- -fly kHled’when the negro fired on him. The shooting took place in the west ern part of the city where Patrolman Honeycutt and Sergeant Jennings had gone to investigate the robbery of three houses Saturday night. Honeycutt is said to have called upon the negro to halt while Jennings was about one hundred yards distant. Shots were heard and when Jennings reached the scene his brother officer gasped and died. Blood hounds were summoned from Asheboro and given the scent early Sunday morning. Hundreds of citi- SCOUTS HAVE BIG DAY IN CUNTON zens joined in the search and about 2 o’clock the negro was found under a pile of brush by Patrolman R. E. Southard and Fireman D. L. Bean. He surrendered and was hurried to the county jail. No attempt was made to arrest him from the officers, but all precaution was taken to prevent any trouble at the jail and the steel riot door over the main entrance was lowered. ,r he negro was wounded in the leg. The negro was en route back to his home at Inman, S. C„ he said today, and reached here Saturday from Plains, Va., and entered houses be cause he needed food and clothing. Miss Dillard Joins Carolina Faculty Miss Irene Dillard, of this city, has been added to the faculty of the Uni versity of South Carolina for the coming year as Dean of Women. Miss Dillard is an A. B. of Randolph- Macon, an M. A. of the University, and a Ph. D. of th$ University of Ndrth Carolina, having received the bandits will be asked to try to iden- utter degree last week after doing tify him. A farmer living near the place where the automobile was abandoned discovered the mail pouches after his curiosity was aroused as to why the automobile had been left in a field since Sunday. He notified the Joliet civil authorities. Others in custody are “Dr.” Spen cer Brown, James Murray, former Chicago .politician who posed as J. Mahoney when arrested; Paul Wade, said to be a former aviator of Tulsa, Okla.; J. H. Wayne, found with five bullet wounds in his body and believ ed by the police to be the bandit wounded in the hold up; J. H. Wat son, said to hail from Oklahoma; a Mias Mead of Milwaukee, whom Wat son svmmonod here to secure $6,000 to obtain hi* freedom and Walter Me- Comb and wife, whose flat was raid ed resulting in the arrest of several of the suspects. post-graduate work for the past year at that institution. Her friends in the city will learn with interest of the rapid promotion she has attained in educational work. Lake Thomas Is Now Open Lake Thomas, on the Clinton-Lau- rena highway, four miles west from here, is now open every day in the week except Sunday and promises to be a very popular spot for the sUfa- mer months. - Its owner, Geo. H. Ellis, has been quite busy getting the lake and surroundings beautified. An expert swimmer is in attendance at all times, suitable bathing booses have been provided, and everything done to make of the lake en enjoy able spot for a summer dip. \ ' ' Camden, June 16.—Smarting from verbal words hurled into his politi cal hide by two of his opponents in the senatorial race, Senator Nathan iel B. Dial today struck back with such spirit as to upset the usual ser enity of the campaign and displace complaisance for sharp criticism. The junior senator from South Carolina first gave attention to John J. McMahan and the insurance com mission’s attack upon his record, then turned upon CongressmA Byrnes with equally fervid speech. Cole L. Blease alone of the three opponent! escaped the biting words of the in cumbent. A good sized and attentive crowd greeted the four speakers. Today was court day, but after the calling of jurors the judge directed an ad journment until tomorrow in. order to make way for the candidates. Me. McMahan, by consent of Senator Dial, the scheduled second speaker, took the platform in the senator’s turn and left for Columbia after complet ing his address. Mr. Byrnes, speaking first, appeal ed for the rejection of the child labor constitutional amendment, urging its defeat by the state legislature. He attacked Senator Dial’s record on the immigration measure, recounting his own in comparison. He directed his attention to the senator’s alleged negotiations seeking to bring Italian immigrants to this state - as farm laborers. Replying to Mr. Dial’s as sertion at Lancaster Saturday that he had acted in accordance with the wish es of the state land commission, Mr. Byrnes said he had written to Gov ernor Manning asking if the sena tor’s statements were correct. He said he believed the senator waa wrong. In a rejoiner, he read a tele gram he said he had just received from T. S. Wilbur,' of Charleston, a member of the commission which said Mr. Wilbur knew of no sUch plan. The congressman gave attention to the senator’s alleged opposition to the reappointment of District Attorney Thurmond and in this connection quoted from expressions by Joseph Tumulty and A. Mitchell Palmer on the subject of thfe appointment. Replying to a statement by Sena tor Dial to the effect that Attorney A 4*** ATTP—4 a General Palmer had sent for Wlo-lZ [ advised him that he was ready to ap point Thomas P. Cothran as district attorney and that Mr. Cothran had declined, Mr. Byrnes read a letter from Mr. Palmer to Thurmond in which Palmer said: .“While I have high respect for Mr. Cothran, I certainly never told Sena tor Dial or anybody else that I was ready to appoint Mr. Cothran.” Mr. McMahan; following the con gressman, said he had no sympathy with the land settlement matter, to which Mr. Dial and Mr. Byrnes have devoted’much discussion. He insisted that such a proposal was economical ly unsound. The commissioner denounced what he termed the manipulation by W. P. G. Harding and David F. Houston of the country's monetary system in the deflation period of 1920. He said their actions enriched Wall Street and impoverished the farmer. The Industrial Workers of the World are no more to be censured, the speaker declared, than are the in ternational bankers who, he said, use men and women as pawns to accom plish to their own ends. Senator Dial, taking the platform, said he did not propose to be divert ed from the main issues of the cam paign by flinge of the other candi dates. He suggested that the candi dates stick to the issues end avoid personalities. He expressed s feeling of pride in his record in the Senate. The senator charged that Congress man Byrnes is attempting to stir up prejudice against him. He denied he had ever said the state land settle- the summer on the Clemson College ment commission had aaked him to faculty but preferred to continue his I obtain Italian immigrants for South connection with Winthrop as in the Carolina farms, asserting that what Young Troopers From Musgrove Camp Spent Tuesday in CKy. Parade In Morning. The Boy Scouts of Musgrove Coun cil, one hundred strong, invaded the city Tuesday and reported a big time. The young troopers headed by Scout Executive Harper, arrived here in the morning and formed a parade down South Broadway with the local Con federate veterans heading the pro cession. A number of ladies of the city volunteered to prepare the din ner and later in the afternoon the Scouts witnessed the Clinton-New- berry Rotary ball game at the col lege park as special guests. At six o'clock the boys gathered at the monument where a number of songs and yells were given. Loaded in trucks, the happy bunch was then soon on their way to Riverside where their annual encampment is now be ing held. CLINTON ROTES Defeat Newberry Visitors By Close Score of 13 to 12 On Tuesday Afternoon. The Clinton Rotarians still claim supremacy on the ball diamond with the adding of another victory Tues day afternoon. They ha da difficult job on their hands to conquer the Newberry Rotes, but with the clear ing away of the smoke and the day's casualties totaled, the local team had won by the exciting score of 13 to 12. “Buck” Browning was in the box for the Clinton team with George Odiorne trying to do the receiving. Neal and, Baker made up the battery for the visitors. The game abounded with many thrills but only lasted five innings, both teams having about all they could stand during that period. In the line-ups two preachers appear ed, “Earl” Babb of Newberry, and “Dave” Woods of Clinton. Through their efforts order was preserved throughout the afternoon and the good sized crowd present enjoyed the game. The Boy Scouts of Musgrove Council were especially invited guests. PROF. WITHERSPOON GOES TO WINTHROP Prof. J. H. Witherspoon, superin tendent of the Clinton schools, left Monday for Rock Hill where he will teach History in the Winthrop sum mer school, a position he has held for the past two years. Prof. Wither spoon was also offered a place for past. LAURENS COUNTY BOY WINS SCHOLARSHIP he had said waa that the commission asked him to loek into the matter and report on it After one conference with the Italian ambassador and another with an American official, ha On the recommendation of the De-! said, he dropped the matter as im- partment of Education in the Univer- practical, sity of South Carolina, the Preston j Mr. Dial gave aa scholarship has been awarded $0 R. connection with the H. Gaston of Laurens. | (Continued oa Pegs Sight) af has